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...fact that tutoring schools flourish at Harvard is indicative of a lack of "intellectual guts" among its undergraduates. A large percentage of the students have not the faintest interest in learning; they are much more concerned with acquiring "two C's and a D" as the tickets of admission to Harvard's extra-curriculum activities. Of course the blame for this attitude cannot all be laid at the doors of the tutoring schools--but they encourage...
...assignments will be made by number and by the foot. The lecture-room will naturally fall into the limbo of the past as lectures, each at a different wavelength, are broadcasted from the professor's study to students in outlying cities within a specified radius. Examinations, however, will flourish no less hardily, for the otherwise untrammeled absentees will be made to answer questions and submit reports by the telautograph. Verily "The old orde--splut-- -- --." Even the athletes will be emancipated when wirelessly-controlled automata follow the instructions of inviable--but not abolished--coaches, Then indeed will Harvard tradition be renowned...
...convinced that Harvard has more to offer than any other institution. The longer we are in college the more we desire to be let alone; the more we are annoyed by appeals to our college spirit, the more we are convinced that if an activity does not flourish there is no occasion to urge its support by the undergraduates, that if a club or a periodical can not survive on its own merits it ought to be allowed to expire in peace...
...lawyer, a banker, a plumber, or a clergyman, has the firm theory that he could edit a newspaper better than it is being edited, could write at least as well as anyone who is writing. The newspaper profession has no side, no hocus pocus of mystery, no grandiose flourish of technique that is in other professions gives pause to the average...
Will the jazz of the saxophone suggest to Cicero's stony ears the flourish of trumpets? These classic features will forever grace such occasions and these lips will forever be silent although the heart of 1921 thrills with youth and laughter...